σειρά
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *tseřřā́, from Proto-Indo-European *twerH- (“to grab, seize, enclose”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /seː.rǎː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /siˈra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /siˈra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /siˈra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /siˈra/
Noun
σειρᾱ́ • (seirā́) f (genitive σειρᾶς); first declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ σειρᾱ́ hē seirā́ |
τὼ σειρᾱ́ tṑ seirā́ |
αἱ σειραί hai seiraí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς σειρᾶς tês seirâs |
τοῖν σειραῖν toîn seiraîn |
τῶν σειρῶν tôn seirôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ σειρᾷ têi seirâi |
τοῖν σειραῖν toîn seiraîn |
ταῖς σειραῖς taîs seiraîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν σειρᾱ́ν tḕn seirā́n |
τὼ σειρᾱ́ tṑ seirā́ |
τᾱ̀ς σειρᾱ́ς tā̀s seirā́s | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σειρᾱ́ seirā́ |
σειρᾱ́ seirā́ |
σειραί seiraí | ||||||||||
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References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1316
Further reading
- σειρά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “σειρά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G4577 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σειρά (seirá). The sense “TV series” is a semantic loan from French série or from English serial.
Noun
σειρά • (seirá) f (plural σειρές)
- class (military; persons subject to the same intake)
- line (of text)
- order (arrangement, disposition, sequence; the state of being well arranged)
- αλφαβητική σειρά ― alfavitikí seirá ― alphabetical order
- turn
- Είναι η σειρά μου να μιλήσω.
- Eínai i seirá mou na milíso.
- It's my turn to speak.
- series; serial; TV series
- Synonym: σήριαλ (sírial)
Declension
declension of σειρά
Related terms
- αλφαβητική σειρά f (alfavitikí seirá, “alphabetical order”)
Further reading
- σειρά - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.
σειρά on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
